Welcome!
Welcome to Zephir, an open source, high-level/domain specific language designed to ease the creation and maintainability of extensions for PHP, with a focus on type and memory safety.
Some features
Zephir’s main features are:
Feature | Description |
---|---|
Type system | dynamic/static |
Memory safety | pointers or direct memory management are not allowed |
Compilation model | ahead of time |
Memory model | task-local garbage collection |
A small taste
The following code registers a class with a method that filters variables, returning their alphabetic characters:
namespace MyLibrary;
/**
* Filter
*/
class Filter
{
/**
* Filters a string, returning its alpha charactersa
*
* @param string str
*/
public function alpha(string str)
{
char ch; string filtered = "";
for ch in str {
if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') || (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z') {
let filtered .= ch;
}
}
return filtered;
}
}
The class can be used from PHP as follows:
<?php
$filter = new MyLibrary\Filter();
echo $filter->alpha("01he#l.lo?/1"); // prints hello
External Links
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